Spinach is one of those greens that can be cooked quickly and makes an amazing side for rice. The Bengali style spinach stir fry is cooked in minimal spices and the frangrant of the five spice concoction, panch phoron makes this simple recipe amazing. Some people add onions too, but I like to keep it…
Poppy has been used as a remedy of number of ailments for hundreds of years, but during Mughal ages it started to become a recreational drug. During the British era, thousands of paddy fields in Bengal were transformed into poppy fields by the British raj to extract the drug. The dried out pods, which are…
Happy Sankranti!! This is my first post for 2021, and wanted to start with a sweet note, and what better than an authentic Bengali sweet prepared during Poush Parbon. Poush Parbon is a special day for me, even though I have grown up in a single family household, this was the day when all aunts,…
Fan us on Facebookor Instagram. You can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email Subho Bijaya Hope you had a nice Durga Puja, spending time with family amidst the pandemic. I cannot believe one more Durga Puja gone and its already Bijaya time. Growing up Bijaya was a big thing in our family. Our entire family, no matter where…
I moved to USA almost 9 years ago. After the initial excitement of trying out new type of food, my Bengali food loving mind started to long for very Bengali recipes that I called mundane when maa used to cook. Getting hold of Malabar spinach to cook chanchhara , or just a nice block of…
Since we moved to our house a few years back, we had been enjoying the big backyard and even started gardening. This year with the pandemic and very few options to do anything in the public, we thought of taking a bigger step and building a bigger vegetable patch. Some planning, some muscle (from the…
Fan us on Facebook or Instagram. You can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email Neem is a wonderful plant, every part of the plant can be used somehow or the other. Neem oil extracted from the plant is an amazing organic insecticide, and it has amazing medicinal values. Stir fried neem with brinjals/egg plants is one of those authentic…
Fan us on Facebookor Instagram. You can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email All Bengalis love street food, which is very evident by the wide range of snacks available around the whole of West Bengal. There is also a special page on Instagram about the West Bengal foods. Many people send their pictures of their food to post….
Fan us on Facebook or Instagram. You can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email When you think about poppy, the first think comes to mind is a field of beautiful red flowers moving with the wind. But, if you are a Bengali, poppy is synonymous to comfort food. Posto is a versatile spice in a Bengali kitchen, whether…
Fan us on Facebookor Instagram. You can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email Kochuri and jilipi is a match made in heaven. The ultimate Bengali breakfast consists of those too things, and of course a cup of piping hot tea. To me jilipi are supposed to be eaten while still warm and crunchy. So, during my visits to…
Fan us on Facebookor Instagram. You can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email India has a huge coastal area, the entire peninsula has abundance of coasts and even regions inside the mainland have access to rivers providing fish and seafood. Most people in these areas with access to water are “fishatarians”, but fish has always been associated with…
Fan us on Facebook or Instagram. You can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email Poila Baisakh is the first day of the Bengali new year, and its a special day for all Bengalis. Wearing new clothes, getting blessings from elders and of course the grand meal with the whole family. The Bengali calendar is stepping in to the 1427…
Fan us on Facebook or Instagram. You can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email While growing up Sunday breakfast always meant luchi and sometimes on special occasions it was peas filled kochuri. My mom’s luchis are so light and fluffy that you don’t even need a side to eat them, my favorite was to eat those hot luchis…
Fan us on Facebookor Instagram. You can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email Dal makhani is a staple in North Indian kitchen, this concoction of black urad dal and kidney beans soured up using tomatoes and cream dates back to one man who fled the then East Pakistan to Delhi, and started his own eatery in Delhi called…
Fan us on Facebook or Instagram. You can also Subscribe to BengaliCuisine by Email Pav bhaji is one of those snacks which has graduated from being a roadside street food, to a full meal. I had never bean a big fan of serving it as dinner or lunch, but yes a snack with piping hot tea works…
